1. Skyrider’s Demise Shows P2P Spamming Doesn’t Pay
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...aunched this summer, and its web site refers to a project that “that will revolutionize the online music world.” Maybe they ran out of money before the revolution started. VentureBeat&rsqu...

2. Yahoo Music: 3 months only
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Yahoo Music Unlimited is reminding its users this week that it is shutting its doors by the end of the month. The company will also turn off its DRM licensing servers, which means that users won't

3. Legal UK P2P service Wippit shuts down
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Wippit, a UK-based P2P service that sold music through subscription packages, has finally shut its doors. A company spokesperson told the Distorted Loop blog that Wippit "succumbed to tough marke

4. LAW: Edonkey server admin cant be liable for infringement
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...hrough the server if he takes reasonable steps to prevent such downloads. The court ruled against Warner Music Germany, which had sued the administrator last summer after they discovered songs of a Wa...

5. Sony PSP 3000 review
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...d the PlayStation Portable (PSP), and in addition to playing games of PS2 graphical quality, it can play music and movies (downloaded or via disc) and surf the Web. It may not be the best handheld med...

6. Sony PSP Review
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...n display and PS2-like graphics. It also boasts built-in Wi-Fi, a Web browser, and the ability to play music and videos, as well as to store images. The bad: . The load times on th...

7. Demonoid IS NOT DEAD!
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...ported yesterday, going on:   The CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA clown (sorry, clone), is noted more for...

8. Music publishers say Kazaa deal reached
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The music publishing industry reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement, an industry group said. Publish

9. LimeWire Goes Legit
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Lime Wire LLC, maker of the controversial LimeWire file-sharing software, plans to go legit with a new music download service. Founded in 2000, LimeWire is better known as a peer-to-peer (P2P) networ

10. RIAA Sells Anti-Piracy Propaganda To Your Children
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...p to your kids school under the guise of saving them from MySpace predators, only to tell them about how music wouldn't be made if the RIAA didn't get thier cut, it becomes something quite dif...

11. How to do File Sharing Without Fear?
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by Preston Gralla, author of Windows XP Hacks   These days, the simple act of sharing music files with like-minded others can make you feel like a hunted criminal, never sure when the

12. University ignores RIAA blackmail
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... students, refusing to cave in to blackmail threats being spammed to schools across the US by the Big 4 music cartel's RIAA. The University of Wisconsin says it won't be a Big 4 copyright...

13. Woman sues WayBack Machine
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... Influence and Corrupt Organizations act) more usually reserved for the likes of the Mafia or the Big 4 music cartel's RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). Suzanne Shell is g...

14. P2P: Open your Eyes! Here comes a new law.
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...on: "There is no allowance for consumers to make backups of DVDs, to strip encryption from music purchased online so that it can be played anywhere, or to generally do any of the things...

15. Companies using piracy techniques against Filesharers
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...ntly working with labels such as Suretone Records to spam file-sharing networks with partial videos and music in an attempt to generate traffic to their website. Additionally, they were embarrassed ...

16. RIAA Threatens Open Wi-Fi
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Debbie Foster, an american citizen, was sued by RIAA member company Capitol Records for allegedly sharing copyrighted material on a P2P file sharing network.  However, the alleged infringement was

17. Are Compulsory Licenses a Solution to the P2P Debate?
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...fair-use lobbyists as the savior of persecuted file-sharers, establishing a common ground with the major music labels and offering the possibility that both parties might, at last, be able to reach an...

18. Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks
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...ld employ a Gnutella-like query-routing protocol or use external identifiers like Bitzi's Bitprints, MusicBrainz identifiers, or IMDB identifiers, coupled with a distributed hash table like Kademl...

19. P2P Has No Effect on Legal Music Sales
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The Journal of Political Economy is running the results of a study into P2P file-sharing, reports Ars Technica. The study has found that, contrary to the claims of the recording industry, there is alm

20. Beat the Viacom Dragnet
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...os targeted for takedowns was a home movie shot in a BBQ joint, a film trailer by a documentarian, and a music video (previously here) about karaoke in Singapore. None of these contained anything owne...